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    A full explanation of the cohabitation of spirit and body... — Carmelics
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    A full explanation of the cohabitation of spirit and body in human beings requires transcending the physical realm

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    • 1.Pereira wanted to address the soul's immortality from the point of view of natural reason
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    • 2.Spirit and body are two radically different natures that cohabit in human beings
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    • 3.Natural reason alone proved insufficient to explain this cohabitation
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    • 1.Descartes' interactionist dualism demonstrates that mind-body cohabitation can be rigorously analyzed within natural philosophy without theological supplement.
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    • 2.The failure of 16th-century natural reason to explain mind-body union reflects historical limitations of Scholastic physiology, not an inherent explanatory ceiling of naturalism.
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    • 3.Leibniz's pre-established harmony and Spinoza's dual-aspect monism show that spirit-body cohabitation admits multiple naturalistic frameworks beyond Pereira's binary.
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    • 1.The inference from 'natural reason has so far failed to explain X' to 'X requires transcending the physical realm' commits the argument from ignorance fallacy.
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    • 2.Contemporary neuroscience of consciousness, from Chalmers' property dualism to Dennett's heterophenomenology, demonstrates that spirit-body integration remains a tractable empirical-philosophical problem.
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    • 3.Pereira's own mechanistic account of animal cognition presupposes that complex mental phenomena can emerge from physical organization, undermining the necessity of transcendence for human cohabitation.
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    Notable Defenders

    AristotleancientMetaphysica VII, 3, 1029a6–29
    AristotleancientDe generatione animalium (II, 3)
    Gómez PereiramodernAntoniana Margarita (1554), I.549
    Gómez PereiramodernAntoniana Margarita
    Pietro PomponazzimodernDe immortalitate animae (1516)

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    It is curious that many of his contemporaries tried to respond to the challenge of proving the immortality of the soul by appealing to coherence, precisely when the Alexandrists emphasized that the coherence of Aristotle was placed in mortality: every substantial form is born and perishes with the compound to which it gives the essence. Pereira was then not original when he tried to respond to Pomponazzi’s mortalist thesis by resorting to an alternative coherence based on the radical separation
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    Contemporary neuroscience of consciousness, from Chalmers' property dualism to D...Descartes' interactionist dualism demonstrates that mind-body cohabitation can b...Leibniz's pre-established harmony and Spinoza's dual-aspect monism show that spi...Natural reason alone proved insufficient to explain this cohabitation
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    Pereira wanted to address the soul's immortality from the point of view of natur...Pereira's own mechanistic account of animal cognition presupposes that complex m...Spirit and body are two radically different natures that cohabit in human beingsThe failure of 16th-century natural reason to explain mind-body union reflects h...The inference from 'natural reason has so far failed to explain X' to 'X require...
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